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Old School is IN!!!Large number of voters choose old-style uniforms based on helmet design

When the staff at Colorado Aggies.com (both of us) decided to recreate the football uniforms of the past for Colorado State University, we had no idea how much Ram fans really care about the uniform style of football players for nearly 90 years. From February 24 toFebruary 28, 2010 an on-line poll of fans on Facebook, Twitter, Ramnation and email to friends and family was conducted to find out what fans thought. The reaction of looking at the uniforms was so overwhelming that the website received more page views in these five days than any other five-day period in the three-year history of Colorado Aggies.com. The website also reached its highest page views for one month in its history topping September 2009 when Aggies to Rams was published. Although page views were high, not all fans turned in their vote, but an overwhelming number of Ram fans did tell us in the best feedback vote we have ever conducted.

Below are the results of the voting and a few notes on what we observed.

CSU Fans vote for their Top 5 favorite football uniforms of all time- March 2010

#5 - Best Alternate Jersey or Uniform StyleThe 1990 Freedom Bowl

#4 - 1979 to 1980 Horns on the sleeves

This style of uniform was very popular among voters for the gold colored numbers and of all things the black shadowing around the numbers.

The uniforms so many fans disliked 20 years ago received the 6th most number of overall votes and the most number of votes for an alternative style. Maybe it was the fact these uniforms, worn only for the 1990 Freedom Bowl, represent the first bowl win in school history or maybe they really were something many fans liked. The 2005 Border War uniforms came in as the second most popular while many fans thought the 1940 "Orange-clad Aggies" style was the worst. Note to the athletic department, all-orange uniforms are not a fan favorite.

This uniform style barely edged out the most recent style and finished at #4 based solely because fans liked the LA Rams style of the yellow horns on the home jersey sleeves. Although the away jersey was not what made these uniforms popular, it was the uniqueness of the ram horns which have never been on jerseys before or since.

As the votes kept coming in we were shocked that the style of Gary Glick and Jerry Callahan became the # 1 fan favorite uniform. Looking at the uniform itself, it is not much different than 1957-1958, which received one vote. We quickly realized that Ram fans chose this style of uniform based on the helmet design. Countless votes came in with "love the bone helmet" or "those were tough looking without the face mask." The comment from one Ramnation user known as "Headbutt" was,"That helmet is unparallelled in football. I would love to see that style of Ramhorns in Vegas Gold on our green helmets."

We agree that the 1950s uniform with original ram horns on the helmet are the best in school history. Now we can't wait to see the new style unveiled later this year.

#3 - 1997 Gold numbers

#2 - 1993-1996 Sonny's Original Uniforms

The way fans described this uniform style was Classy, no stripes, "the best uniforms ever" and that the new Vegas Gold color made the school colors pop. There was nothing fancy about these uniforms that were around during Sonny Lubick's first three years as head coach, they just had a certain classic look. This style and the #1 pick remained head-to-head during the five days of voting and at one time had been in first place before a surge of votes for the winner.

#1 - 1952-1956 The Bone Style Helmet with striped sleeves

This poll was conducted by the Colorado Aggies.com staff, a private fan website, and does not represent the opinion of Colorado State University

2000-2002 Style was not forgotten

We heard from many fans that noticed we lumped the 2000-2002 uniform style into the 2003-2009 style. The reason this was done is because our artwork could not show the difference in the fat numbers from the 2000-2002 uniforms. So through photos we stand corrected on this issue and apologize to those that wanted to vote for them..

We DID accidentally forget to include the 2007 Throwback uniforms

Uniform styles that received no votes:

Unpopular Uniforms

- 1950

- 1969

- 1970-1972

Ram fans did not look at these styles twice and they received no votes among the 100s cast.